Articles from Vol. 2, No. 2, June

Ideally, Christian confessional writings are a public testimony, in which a sinner exposes his shameful past to others, namely to God and the public, so that a reconciliation and transformation can occur. This article pursues the question of whether...

Cecil B. DeMille, the legendary co-founder of Hollywood, progenitor of Paramount studios and unsung auteur was a macho man and master of the American cinema whose indelible biblical epics strongly exuded the resonance of masculinity. Not only were...

This edition of JMMS offers an intriguing mix of papers, providing an excellent example of the diversity of the study of men, masculinities and religion. Bjorn Krondorfer starts off with an examination of the confessional writings of National Socialist...

Men, Loss and Spiritual Emergency: Shakespeare, the Death of Hamnet and the Making of Hamlet

How does a father manage the death of his son or his father? What might a playwright do? This article proposes that confronted with the multiple loss of his son Hamnet and subsequently his father John, William Shakespeare experienced a transformational...

The author takes a narrative approach to the spirituality of paternal availability. In all of the stories that are investigated, the theme of silence is prominent. Silence manifests itself through the modalities of restraint, loving action, and listening....

Review of Lahoucine Ouzgane and Robert Morrell (Eds.), African Masculinities: Men in Africa from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present

Review of Lahoucine Ouzgane and Robert Morrell (Eds.), African Masculinities: Men in Africa from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present (New York/Scottsville: Palgrave Macmillan/University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2005), xv + 308 pp. Academic...

Review of Murat Aydemir, Images of Bliss: Ejaculation, Masculinity, Meaning (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007), xxv + 334 pp. In her 1985 book This Sex Which Is Not One, Belgian philosopher Luce Irigaray called for "reckoning with...